James Barnor print loaned from the Archive

Contextualising this material is a selection of 11 prints loaned from Autograph ABP with the support of Renée Mussai...So successful has this collaboration been that I chose a portrait by Eileen Perrier, which I saw at Autograph’s offices, for the poster.

Curator Michael McMillan, on works loaned from the Archive for the exhibition Origins of the Afro Comb

The Paris Albums 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois

[Ever Young: James Barnor] represents the first major public gallery exhibition curated out of this new archive - a direct result of in-depth research that emerged from a rigorous process of digital preservation, cataloguing and contextualisation.

The HLF grant enables us to build on our 20 year history of working with photographers and artists and to create a permanent testament to the crucial contribution their work has made to the cultural life of Britain. The missing chapter will finally be filled.